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How to pronounce wantonness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms licentiousness
Type of immorality
Derivation wanton
Type Words
Synonyms abandon, unconstraint
Type of unrestraint
Derivation wanton

Examples of wantonness

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Homosexuals are hopelessly antiwoman, and to encourage their wantonness is to demean all women.
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If he were president of the United States and being impeached for his wantonness, his polling numbers would soar.
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A manly individual is resistant to wantonness.
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Asmodeus was also a prince of the Seraphim and reportedly continues to be one, burning with desire to tempt men into wantonness.
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Celebrated for their wantonness, the favored Hurricanes breezed into Phoenix wearing paramilitary camouflage and murderous expressions.
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Rock's character spends most of his time fending off the advances of the vixenish Washington, whose wantonness never seems more than a plot device.
From the philly.com
The angel in the title is played by Robin Weigert, who materializes dramatically at the close of the first play and returns with some menace and wantonness in the second play.
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For an act to be evil, it must be significantly wrong, embarked upon with full knowledge of its wantonness and embraced wholeheartedly by the person doing the deed.
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More examples
  • Abandon: the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon"
  • Licentiousness: the quality of being lewd and lascivious
  • The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior; A particular wanton act